September 30, 2008September 30, 2008 by Luigi Guarino

Nibbles: Fungi, Early warming, Food banks, High concept, Russia, Wine, Apples, China, Sustainable ag

Vesicular arbuscular mychorriza help improve fallows.
Google.org has a Predict and Prevent Initiative to catch outbreaks of human diseases before they happen. Would be nice to have something similar for threats of erosion of agrobiodiversity.
Niger’s soudure food banks: could they act as village-level genebanks?
You might call it meta-farmingâ€”the quasi-philosophical approach to raising crops and livestock that proceeds not from necessity or commercial aims but a concept.
Farming in Russia: a slide show with narration.
Army worm wine. WTF? Via. (They’re caterpillars.)
A Kazak apple a day keeps the blue mold away.
Neolithic China: not just rice.
The oldest continuous cotton experiment in the world.

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1. Big IUCN report says that biodiversity and agriculture are in conflict, they don’t really need to be, but it’s really complicated for them not to be. So that’s us all told.
2. If only annual crops were perennial, for example, eh?
3. If only we incorporated more sustainable agriculture in education, for example, eh? Apart from anything else we could still have beer. No word on the role of perennial barley though.
4. If only improved seeds were open source, for example, eh?
5. If only we could cryopreserve coral, for example, eh? Wait, what?
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